Chapter 5 Booklet Activity
Learning Targets:
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I can create a booklet that organizes information about the events leading up to the American
Revolution.
I can explain how the American colonists reacted to British policies, including diplomatically and
through military force.
Directions: Follow the steps provided to create a booklet for Chapter 5, “The Spirit of Independence.”
Students will identify all of the events, people, laws, acts and important vocabulary from the chapter.
Steps in the Process:
1. Pick 4 pieces of blank paper.
2. Fold the paper in half (hamburger-style). Staple all the pages together.
3. Title your booklet “Chapter 5: The Spirit of Independence.” Include your name and period
number. You may choose to add pictures or color.
4. Label the pages in your booklet with the following headings (leave 2 pages per section):
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5.1 – Taxation Without Representation
Essential Question: Following the French and Indian War, how did the British
upset the American colonists?
 5.2 – Building Colonial Unity
Essential Question: How did colonists react to British policies?
 5.3 – A Call to Arms
Essential Question: What brought about the clash between the British soldiers
and American colonists at Lexington and Concord?
 5.4 – Moving Towards Independence
Essential Question: Why did the American colonists choose to declare
independence?
5. Identify, explain or define all of the terms on the back of this page.
5.1
Define: revenue, writs of assistance,
resolution, effigy (effigies), boycott,
nonimportation, repeal
Identify or describe: Proclamation of 1763,
Sugar Act, James Otis, Stamp Act, Patrick
Henry, Samuel Adams, Sons of Liberty,
Declaratory Act, Townshend Acts, Daughters
of Liberty
5.3
5.2
Define: propaganda, committee of
correspondence
Identify or describe: Crispus Attucks, Boston
Massacre, Paul Revere, Tea Act, Boston Tea
Party, King George III, Coercive Acts
(Intolerable Acts)
5.4
Define: militia, minutemen, Loyalist, Patriot
Define: petition, preamble
Identify or describe: Continental Congress,
John Adams, Suffolk Resolves, William
Dawes/Paul Revere, Captain John Parker,
Lexington and Concord, Ethan Allen and the
Green Mountain Boys, Colonel William
Prescott, Battle of Bunker Hill
Identify or describe: Second Continental
Congress, Benjamin Franklin, John Hancock,
Continental Army, George Washington, Olive
Branch Petition, Benedict Arnold, Thomas
Paine/Common Sense, Richard Henry Lee,
Declaration of Independence, Thomas
Jefferson